Rethinking engagement from the ethnographic experience: Discomforts and potentialities of knowledge production with social organizations Repensar el compromiso desde el quehacer etnográfico: Incomodidades y potencialidades de la producción de conocimiento con organizaciones sociales

TRENTINI, FLORENCIA; WOLANSKI, SANDRA

Revista Colombiana de Antropología

Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia

Año: 2018 vol. 54 p. 151 - 173

0486-6525

This paper explores ethnographic work with social organizations, drawing from two dissimilar research experiences: with an urban labor union and with a natural park co-management project. We problematize the notion of engagement as a specific relation built during our work and reveal its situated nature, shaped through dialogue with the interests and proposals of the organizations, as well as by local definitions and meanings.